Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) from the 1980 Census
contain individual-level and household-level information from the
"long-form" questionnaires distributed to a sample of the population
enumerated in the Census. For PUMS-D, which is a one percent sample, a
unique geographic scheme was employed in which counties are grouped
into labor market areas. While the A, B, and C PUMS files are
hierarchical in structure and contain two types of records
("household... (more info)

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) from the 1980 Census
contain individual-level and household-level information from the
"long-form" questionnaires distributed to a sample of the population
enumerated in the Census. For PUMS-D, which is a one percent sample, a
unique geographic scheme was employed in which counties are grouped
into labor market areas. While the A, B, and C PUMS files are
hierarchical in structure and contain two types of records
("household" and "person" records), the PUMS-D file has been
rectangularized, with information from the household records added at
the beginning of each corresponding person record. All standard PUMS
variables are provided in this file, including (1)housing information
such as year structure was built, plumbing facilities, heating
equipment, fuel used, vehicles available, mortgage, rent, and taxes,
and (2)person information such as demographic characteristics,
schooling, occupation, place of work, transportation to work, and
income.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE (D SAMPLE) [PUMS-D]. Tallahassee, FL: Charles M. Tolbert, Florida State University [producer], 198?. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08646.v1

The production of PUMS-D was a cooperative effort of
the Economic Research Service (United States Department of
Agriculture), researchers affiliated with the United States Department
of Agriculture Regional Research Project S-184, the Southern Rural
Development Center, the North Central Regional Center for Rural
Development, and the Northeast Center for Rural Development. These
organizations paid the Census Bureau for a special tabulation to
produce the basic file of data. Funds from the Committee on Faculty
Research Support at Florida State University were used to produce the
rectangular version of PUMS-D, which was prepared by Charles Tolbert
and Paul Hanna. The data require six 2,400 foot magnetic tapes blocked
near 32,000 and written at 6,250 bpi, or approximately 21-23 tapes
written at 1,600 bpi. Documentation for this collection incorporates
the new record layout for the rectangular PUMS-D file and an appendix
of labor market areas with standard Census Bureau documentation
pertaining to the Public-Use Microdata Samples.

Methodology

Sample:
Stratified one percent sample of housing units and persons
in them as enumerated in the 1980 census.